Edgar Buchanan
Biography
Biographyby Hal Erickson Intending to become a dentist like his father, American actor Edgar Buchanan wound up with grades so bad in college that he was compelled to take an "easy" course to improve his average. Buchanan chose a course in play interpretation, and after listening to a few recitations of Shakespeare he was stagestruck. After completing dental school, Buchanan plied his oral surgery skills in the summertime, devoting the fall, winter and spring months to acting in stock companies and at the Pasadena Playhouse in California. He was given a screen test by Warner Bros. studios in 1940, received several bit roles, then worked himself up to supporting parts upon transferring to Columbia Pictures. Though still comparatively youthful, Buchanan specialized in grizzled old westerners, with a propensity towards villainy or at least larceny. The actor worked at every major studio (and not a few minor ones) over the next few years, still holding onto his dentist's license just in case he needed something to fall back on. Though he preferred movie work to the hurried pace of TV filming, Buchanan was quite busy in television's first decade, costarring with William Boyd on the immensely popular Hopalong Cassidy series, then receiving a starring series of his own, Judge Roy Bean, in 1954. Buchanan became an international success in 1963 thanks to his regular role as the lovably lazy Uncle Joe Bradley on the classic sitcom Petticoat Junction, which ran until 1970. After that, the actor experienced a considerably shorter run on the adventure series Cade's County, which starred Buchanan's close friend Glenn Ford. Buchanan's last movie role was in Benji (1974), which reunited him with the titular doggie star, who had first appeared as the family mutt on Petticoat Junction.
Penny Serenade
Applejack
Petticoat Junction
Joseph P. 'Uncle Joe' Carson / ... (195 episodes, 1963-1970)
The Over-the-Hill Gang
Jason Fitch
Yuma
Mules McNeil
The Big Trees
Walter 'Yukon' Burns
Buffalo Bill
Sgt. Chips McGraw
The Devil's Partner
Doc Lucas
Die Höhle der Gesetzlosen
Dobbs
Hopalong Cassidy TV Collection #1
Red Connors (40 episodes, 1952-1954)
Judge Roy Bean - Volume 3
Judge Roy Bean (39 episodes, 1956-1957)
Hollywood Out-Takes and rare Footage
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Benji
Bill
Sam Cade
J.J. Jackson
The Marshal of Madrid
Deputy JJ Jackson
Yuma
Mules McNeil
The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again
Jason Fitch
The Over-the-Hill Gang
Jason Fitch
Angel in My Pocket
Axel Gresham
Something for a Lonely Man
Old Man Wolenski
Welcome to Hard Times
Brown
Gunpoint
Bull
The Rounders
Vince Moore
Move Over, Darling
Judge Bryson
McLintock!
Bunny Dull
Donovan's Reef
Boston Attorney
Petticoat Junction
Joseph P. 'Uncle Joe' Carson / ... (195 episodes, 1963-1970)
Ride the High Country
Judge Tolliver
The Comancheros
Circuit Court Judge Thaddeus Jackson Breen
Tammy Tell Me True
Judge Carver
Chartroose Caboose
Woodrow 'Woody' Watts
Cimarron
Judge Neal Hefner
Four Fast Guns
Dipper
Doc Cole
Edge of Eternity
Sheriff Edwards
It Started with a Kiss
Congressman Richard Tappe
The Devil's Partner
Doc Lucas
In Colorado ist der Teufel los
Milt Masters
Day of the Badman
Sam Wyckoff
Au nom de la loi : Saison 3 - Volume 2 - 3 DVD
Chester Blake / ... (2 episodes, 1959)
Spoilers of the Forest
Tom Duncan
Come Next Spring
Mr. Canary
Judge Roy Bean - Volume 3
Judge Roy Bean (39 episodes, 1956-1957)
Wichita
Doc Black
The Lonesome Trail
Dan Wells
Will 'Bill' Dowdy (as Edgar Buchanon)
Rage at Dawn
Judge
Destry
Mayor Sellers
Dawn at Socorro
Sheriff Cauthen
Human Desire
Alec Simmons
Make Haste to Live
Sheriff Lafe
Shane
Fred Lewis
Jede Woche neu
Jake
She Couldn't Say No
Ed Meeker
Der Löwe von Arizona
Jim Hadlock
The Big Trees
Walter 'Yukon' Burns
Die roten Teufel von Arizona
Sgt. O'Rourke
Hopalong Cassidy
Red Connors / ... (40 episodes, 1952-1954)
Die silberne Stadt
Dutch Surrency
Die Höhle der Gesetzlosen
Dobbs
Rawhide
Sam Todd
The Great Missouri Raid
Dr. Samuels
Devil's Doorway
Zeke Carmody
La Sbornia di David
Uncle Fred Mahoney
Cheaper By the Dozen
Dr. Burton
Any Number Can Play
Ed
Lust for Gold
Wiser
Red Canyon
Jonah Johnson
Treibsand
Old Willy
The Man From Colorado
Doc Merriam
Coroner Creek
Sheriff O'Hea
The Black Arrow Strikes
Lawless
Framed
Jeff Cunningham
The Sea of Grass
Jeff, Cook on Brewton Ranch
If I'm Lucky
Darius J. Magonnagle
Renegades
Kirk Dembrow
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
George Bradford
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
Friar Tuck
Abilene Town
Sheriff 'Bravo' Trimble
Jonathan Connors
Buffalo Bill
Sgt. Chips McGraw
Destroyer Men
Kansas Jackson
Desperadoes, The
Uncle Willie McLeod
City Without Men
Judge Michael T. Mallory
The Talk of the Town
Sam Yates
Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
Curly Bill Brocious
Me Perteneces
Billings
Texas
Buford 'Doc' Thorpe
Penny Serenade
Applejack
Arizona
Judge Bogardus
When the Daltons Rode
Narrator / Old-Timer (uncredited)
The Sea Hawk
Ben Rollins (uncredited)
3 Cheers for the Irish
Party Guest (uncredited)
Too Many Husbands
McDermott
The Impatient Years
Judge
Hopalong Cassidy TV Collection #1
Red Connors (40 episodes, 1952-1954)
